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Nic Duncan and Carol Pettersen at the Albany Town Hall ahead of the opening of Binalup, Menang: First Light, First People.

Albany 2026Noongar stories front and centre in new Town Hall exhibition

The Albany Town Hall was full on Friday night as the Binalup, Menang: First Light, First People exhibition — a photographic showcase of Albany’s Noongar community — was officially opened to the public.

Jacki Elezovich

Doric String Quartet violinists Maia Cabeza and Ying Xue, clarinettist Lloyd Van't Hoff, violist Emma Wernig and cellist John Myerscough play on tour for Musica Viva.

Classical livePremiumClarinet antics add gloss to strings

Lloyd Van’t Hoff and Doric String Quartet on tour with Musica Viva at Subiaco’s Regal Theatre.

David Cusworth

Cellist Ivan Karizna plays an encore of Giovanni Sollima’s Lamentatio at Winthrop Hall on Friday.

Classical livePremiumKarizna charisma ignites Winthrop Hall

Cellist and WA Symphony Orchestra radiate romance with Schumann and Brahms at Winthrop Hall.

David Cusworth

The West Australian Pulse 2026 artist Eva Doyle with her portrait The Unaltered Soul.

ArtCommentsPremiumMultiple perspectives in deeply personal Pulse portrait

All the time, hard work and frustration Eva Doyle encountered creating her Year 12 visual artwork in 2025 was made worthwhile the moment her grandfather Jim Doyle first saw portrait, The Unaltered Soul.

Tanya MacNaughton

WA Ballet dancers pictured during rehearsals for their Genesis production. Ian Munro

LifestyleCamera IconPremiumBehind the curtain of life as a West Aussie ballet dancer

Starting every morning at the barre would make most people lose their job, unless you are a dancer with West Australian Ballet.

Tanya MacNaughton and Ian Munro

Ruby Clark plays Max in Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular Australian tour.

StagePremiumMusical theatre performer rewrites the stars

Ruby Clark stars in Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, a live reimagining of The Greatest Showman soundtrack with actors, singers, dancers and circus acts under a purpose-built hippodrome.

Tanya MacNaughton

WAAPA graduate Harry Gilchrist is making his WA professional debut in Black Swan State Theatre Company play The Almighty Sometimes.

TheatreCommentsGilchrist hits it for six in WA debut of Black Swan play

While Harry Gilchrist may have been the first in his family to pursue an acting career, the eldest son of cricketing legend Adam Gilchrist believes he got some of his flair for performance from his old man.

Tanya MacNaughton

Some of the art on show at Margaret River Region Open Studios launch event in 2025.

ArtsPremiumNew art ambassadors steer direction of Open Studios

Margaret River Region Open Studios. have appointed four new regional representatives for Busselton, Dunsborough, Cowaramup and Margaret River to help the event reach new audiences. 

Craig Duncan

Harry Gilchrist as Oliver and 'Ana Ika as Anna in Black Swan State Theatre Company's production of The Almighty Sometimes.

ReviewHeartbreaking journey, told with compassion and insight

“What do you think of me?” It’s a question every teenager might think to ask of a friend,  which takes on a deep emotional resonance in Black Swan’s latest production of The Almighty Sometimes.

Belinda Hickman

Various Brookton Onward and Brookton community volunteers at the Robinson Road mural.

Community projectPremiumRainbow road mural encourages slower traffic in Brookton

A splash of colour, plenty of paint and a whole lot of community spirit has transformed Robinson Road from a boring street, with vibrant artwork designed to slow traffic now brightening the tarmac.

Amy Towers

The West Australian Pulse 2026 artist Lisa Ho with her work Made In Australia at AGWA.

PulsePremiumContrasting cultures creates vibrant artwork

Lisa Ho has found it rewarding to hear how the themes of identity, culture and belonging explored within her artwork have resonated with others at The West Australian Pulse 2026.

Tanya MacNaughton

WA Ballet dancer and Genesis choreographer Brent Carson.

DancePremiumCrowd favourite moves to new venue

The ambition to choreograph a work for WA Ballet’s annual dancer-led choreographic season Genesis has been bubbling away since Brent Carson joined the company in 2020.

Tanya MacNaughton

Mandy Bishop plays Truvy in the Australian production of Steel Magnolias.

TheatrePremiumEmotional roller coaster with southern charm

Mandy Bishop joined a long list of formidable talent when she was cast in Robert Harling’s play Steel Magnolias currently touring Australia.

Tanya MacNaughton

One of the Shire of Narrogin entry statement signs.

keep our signsBuilder of Narrogin’s entry signs urges council to keep them

One of the volunteers who helped craft the signs that welcome people to Narrogin townsite is pleading with the council not to replace them with $171,000 rock designs that “every second shire has got”.

Melissa Sheil

Madeleine Hammond takes a bow for WASO's Composition Project at Studio Underground.

Classical livePremiumFive find fame in Composition Project

Chamber ensemble premieres young composers’ work at Studio Underground for WA Symphony Orchestra’s Composition Project.

David Cusworth

Local artist Catherine McKinlay with some of her work.

Life in colourPremiumMcKinlay’s journey to mental health recovery in full colour

Catherine McKinlay’s colourful life is reflected in her colourful art, detailing a journey full of happiness and struggle of equal measure.

Claire Middleton

Giuseppe Fausto Modugno and Elyane Laussade in Piano Fortissimo at WA Museum Boola Bardip Hackett Hall.

Classical livePremiumPiano Fortissimo meets Otto the whale

Music on the Terrace moves to WA Museum Boola Bardip during roof repairs at Government House.

David Cusworth

Eva Forster pictured with her artwork ‘The Mourning’ at The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, on Monday. She is one of the artists selected for The West Australian Pulse 2026. Carwyn Monck

The West Australian PulseCommentsPremiumFinalist named for oil painting exploring anxiety

Like many young people navigating the stress of their final year of high school, Eva Forster worried about losing those close to her, but she turned her anxiety into a large scale oil painting. 

Kirsty Lichtenstein

James Huntingford, Jet Kye Chong, Krista Low, Sarah Papadopoulos, Bonnie de la Hunty, Alexis Chin and Eliza McCracken take a bow for HIP Company's Festa Italiana at Victoria Hall, Fremantle.

Classical livePremiumFesta Italiana serves Italian fare

An evening stroll through early Baroque with HIP Company at Victoria Hall, Fremantle

David Cusworth

The Almighty Sometimes playwright Kendall Feaver.

TheatrePremiumSearching for self in mental illness story

Contemporary Australian playwright Kendall Feaver’s debut play The Almighty Sometimes is heading to the Subiaco Arts Centre stage with Black Swan State Theatre Company.

Tanya MacNaughton

Landscape artist and historian Margaret Sanders at the Vancouver Arts Centre.

inspirePremiumHistory and paint combine in unique art practice

Albany landscape painter Margaret Sanders is bringing Albany’s history to life through art, tracing the footsteps of the city’s first European arrivals to re-imagine what they saw. 

Jacki Elezovich

Year 12 visual arts graduate Lauren Branch pictured with her artwork Life’s Ephemeral Dance at The Art Gallery of WA.

The West PulsePremiumDragonflies dance in remembrance painting by Year 12 grad

Seton Catholic College Year 12 visual arts graduate Lauren Branch explores beauty in the grief of losing a loved one in her artwork Life’s Ephemeral Dance, part of The West Australian Pulse 2026 exhibition.

Tanya MacNaughton

Art therapist Serena McLauchlan with pieces from the Taking Flight exhibition at Albany Library.

Art showExhibition demonstrates the positive power of art therapy

Art for art’s sake, they say but the works now on show at Albany Public Library demonstrate that picking up a paintbrush can lead to much more than a simple, pretty picture.

Claire Middleton

Akiko Miyazawa, Siobhan Makinson, Anika Collins and Ellie Malonzo play for the season launch of Grove Classics at the Grove Library on Sunday.

Classical livePremiumWinter draws on at Grove Library

Romantic violins launch Grove Classics June season on Sunday.

David Cusworth